Hi, On 30.06.2012 10:51, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 10:23:11AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2012-06-30 09:34 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> >>> it seems, instead of removing /lib/init/rw, >> >> The initscripts package does not remove that directory, but you're free >> to do that yourself. In fact, I did it months ago. > > This is certainly true. > >>> initscripts now forcefully creates /lib/init/rw on each boot. >> >> Are you sure that it's not some other package's fault? I don't see any >> code in initscripts that would create /lib/init/rw.
My bad, I think this was a red herring... > I just double-checked, including rebooting a current sid system in a > VM, and it's not created at boot there. I did have an empty > /lib/init/rw[/sendsigs.omit.d] on my main system, but removing it and > rebooting did not result in it being recreated. > > Do you have another package with an init script which recreates it? > > The only recent change relating to /lib/init/rw is relating to > bootclean, where we clean it before mountall so that if there was any > residual data in the directory from upgrade, we clean it out to save > space. Other than that, there have been no changes since its removal > last year. Yeah, with todays reboot I noticed, that bootclean was printing a message about cleaning up /lib/init/rw. I've never seen that message before. So I was wondering why this script was suddenly talking about /lib/init/rw when this directory was supposed to be long gone. I've checked the date of the directory, and it was last modified this morning. I was of the opinion, that initscripts was supposed to clean up i.e. remove /lib/init/rw on upgrades (vaguely remember out discussion about rsyslog and the leftover sendsigs.omit.d directory [1]). Apparently this is not the case. So, I was mislead by the date of the directory and falsely concluded that the directory was created by initscripts. Removing it manually, does indeed get rid of it for good. So I guess this is mostly just a misunderstanding of what initscripts was supposed to do with /lib/init/rw on upgrades. I thought it would rm -rf it. I don't quick see the reason why it should be kept and checked on each boot in bootclean. Cheers, Michael [1] from the initscripts changelog: "Additionally clean up /lib/init/rw in case any files were hidden by the (now removed) tmpfs mount at this location. Closes: #652625." -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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